Militarizing politics, essentializing identities: Interpretivist process tracing and the power of geopolitics

This reply to the Symposium on Stefano Guzzini (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe?, answers the criticisms by John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Dan Deudney and Jennifer Mitzen. It justifies (1) its specific definition and critique of geopolitics as a theory – and not just a foreign policy strategy...

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Published in:Cooperation and conflict 2017-09, Vol.52 (3), p.423-445
Main Author: Guzzini, Stefano
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Causality
constructivism
Criticism
Foreign policy
foreign policy analysis
Geopolitics
Identity
Policy analysis
Political Science
Rejoinder article
social/causal mechanisms
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Summary:This reply to the Symposium on Stefano Guzzini (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe?, answers the criticisms by John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Dan Deudney and Jennifer Mitzen. It justifies (1) its specific definition and critique of geopolitics as a theory – and not just a foreign policy strategy; (2) its proposed interpretivist process tracing; (3) the role of mechanisms in constructivist theorizing and foreign policy theory; and (4) its usage of non-Humean causality in the analysis of multiple parallel processes and their interaction. At the same time, it develops the logic of the book’s main mechanism of foreign policy identity crisis reduction.
ISSN:0010-8367
1460-3691
1460-3691
DOI:10.1177/0010836717719735